Yasmine Azaiez started to play the violin when she was 4 years old in Great Britain, and when she was 8, she won a place at the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School.
At the age of 17, she came second in the annual “Young Musician of the Year Competition” in Sevenoaks, Great Britain, with a panel of judges made up of eminent teachers from the Royal College of Music in London. The judges said of her: “Immense talent, with an excellent and exciting professional approach and a unique, unbelievably...
Mohamed Kilani Tbib, born in 1990, is a Tunisian graphic artist and calligrapher, working under the name of Inkman.
From a very young age, he was interested in poetry and had a need to express his love for humanity and vision of tolerance on paper.
Originally from the Gabès region in the south of Tunisia, the artist travels constantly and leaves a remarkable imprint of each and every one of his travels.
In 2014 he took part in Djerbahood, a project that involved transforming the village of...
Ali Dey Daly is a surprising, engaging young man with bags of talent. He has been able to turn his trade into an art form that he totally understands, cherishes and develops, completely at peace.
It was when he was 14 that this young man’s adventure officially began. At the time, he was a student at secondary school, and he decided to give that up after a long conversation with his parents, to do a vocational cooking course that allowed him to work in Tunisia.
When he was 15 he embarked on his...
Sadika Keskes studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Tunis and studied to be a master glassmaker in Murano, near Venice. When she returned from Italy, she dedicated her life to bringing back blown glass in Tunisia, an activity that had been abandoned since the 14th century.
In 1984, she built her first furnace. Her pieces enjoyed immediate success due to the diversity of the different shapes and colours she used. Steeped in the rich heritage of her ancestors, Sadika has carried out extensive...
After winning the Roland-Garros girls’ tournament in 2011, Ons Jabeur became the first African tennis player to add her name to the trophy of a Grand Slam tournament. She is now classed as the best female tennis player in Africa, beating the South African Chanelle Scheepers.
At the age of 29, Salah Mejri is the first North African player to play for the NBA. The center is 2.17m tall, and in July, he signed a three-year contract with the Dallas Mavericks. The Tunisian has played in international competitions, including the Olympics in London in 2012 and the Africa Championship in 2011, which his country won, and during which he was named most valuable player in the competition.
Malek has always been passionate about food and cooking. After studying business in Paris, she went to the Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon, an internationally renowned management college specialising in the hotel industry, catering and the culinary arts. She now presents a number of different cookery programmes on TV and radio.
With his camera and his backpack, Rabii Ben Brahim explores the lesser-known corners of Tunisia. Despite his lack of money, he shares his photos and videos on social networking sites to spread the word about the diversity of his country’s landscapes.